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    "What to Expect When You're a Patient"

    Graduatenurse14 replied to Graduatenurse14's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I am the OP. To clarify, I don't leave people for last who are in crisis or truly in need of their nurse being in their room. I prioritize my nursing care appropriately but I also prioritize the...
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    RNs with a Bachelor's in another field

    Graduatenurse14 replied to TwistaKrista's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    @TwistaKrista (the OP), I can't PM you since you haven't posted enough yet so I hope that you see this! Drexel University in Philly has a program for those of use who have a non-Nursing BA/BS and...
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    "What to Expect When You're a Patient"

    Graduatenurse14 replied to Graduatenurse14's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Susie2310, Thank you for your response. I welcome them all. I do. I went from teaching kids and adults to going to nursing school after being with my mom every step of the way while she battled...
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    Bedpan? Why not a Poise pad?

    Graduatenurse14 replied to TryVeganToday's topic in General Nursing

    I like the poise pad/baby brief idea. I even like the female urinal if it's cheap enough- which I doubt since I've not seen them in the 6 hospitals I've either done clincals or worked at at a CNA or...
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    Please explain how union hospitals do it.

    Graduatenurse14 replied to Libby1987's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    I work at a union hospital but the the union is fairly ineffective in many ways. On my unit of 44 beds Dayshift is 5 pt. max and 6 max on Nightshift. We need more CNA's (1-2 on days and 0-1 nights)...
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    I don't want to be a quitter.

    Graduatenurse14 replied to wannabecnl's topic in Health, Stress Management

    I agree with the above posters. Consider giving something else a
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    Loan forgiveness options? Help!

    Graduatenurse14 replied to kaimkaim's topic in General Nursing

    Dave Ramsey ROCKS!!! "Live like no one else so you can live like no one else" is pure gold when trying to get out of debt. He has books, a radio show, seminars all over the county, Endorsed Local...
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    Foot in mouth, now a social pariah

    Graduatenurse14 replied to arack05's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I agree with this
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    Foot in mouth, now a social pariah

    Graduatenurse14 replied to arack05's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I'm really not sure. Was that one person so terribly offended that they felt the need to tell everyone about it? If it was a case like that, could apologizing to that person and making it right with...
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    Workplace Bullying

    Graduatenurse14 replied to ERnurz's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I would be very upset too! You said that she has her own demons which may or may not be at the root of her behavior but regardless of what is driving it, management needs to ensure that one of their...
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    Can we just agree, being honest is not akin to being "rude"?

    Graduatenurse14 replied to SmilingBluEyes's topic in General Nursing

    I agree 100%. Sometimes, I want to come on to see what's going on but I don't if I'm not up to seeing unnecessarily harsh and unhelpful replies or "guns blazing rhetoric." No one, not one person...
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    Esme Needs Your Prayers

    Graduatenurse14 replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    Yay!! Prayers being sent for continued
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    Nurse Tracking Device

    Graduatenurse14 replied to RN_Pink's topic in General Nursing

    We have the tracers but only one or two secretaries hand them out. Once I was wearing mine but it wasn't working so no one could find me. Where was I??? In that last patient's room they checked....
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    Med compatibility

    Graduatenurse14 replied to Birdy2's topic in Patient Medications

    You too??? I went to school to give Morphine and Sprite- "With ice, lots of ice." Thank God I was a waitress in high school and college (1st degree) in the 80's and
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    1st nursing job, Do I disclose condition?

    Graduatenurse14 replied to Loxam10's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    Can you go to a different pain management doc who has different weekday hours/open 1 weekend a month or receive infusions at home? If none of those options will work, I would check the out the PTO...
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    Feeling defeated

    Graduatenurse14 replied to PixieRN14's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Hi PixieRN14, I'm a new RN too and could've written your post! I really have no words of advice since I'm in the same boat! But, I work on very busy neuroscience floor, we see get the patients after...
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    Broviac Allergy

    Graduatenurse14 replied to summer16's topic in Infusion, Intravenous

    Poor little guy!!! I'm a new RN so I have no advice. Good luck in finding a fix for him! I learn so much from this site! Here is what I'm confused about: So when a patient needs a tunneled...
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    Medication safety what if...

    Graduatenurse14 replied to SBGangelJC's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    ALL of our meds are kept in the Pyxis so many of us pull say all of their 8:00 am and place them in a ziplock bag with a sticker with initials and room number. When we have to give say, morphine, we...
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    Is this actually a HIPAA violation?

    Graduatenurse14 replied to Anonymous6578's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    No, you and your fellow students need to fight this. Talking/gossiping about fellow students/professors is not a HIPAA violation. Find the true legal definition and get your case together to...
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    WANTED: Instructor and Student Perspectives on ATI in the Classroom

    Graduatenurse14 replied to la_chica_suerte85's topic in General Students

    I hate ATI too. Big waste of $$$. There are mistakes in their materials and they do not give the money back/take NCLEX prep portion again like Kaplan does. They put their money where their mouth...
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    Question about a recent patient

    Graduatenurse14 replied to Graduatenurse14's topic in Infusion, Intravenous

    I found out that 30 ml/hr is KVO at my facility. I'm not sure if I had a PRN order to flush but of course I had the order to flush to asses patency q shift and before and after med administration....
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    Question about a recent patient

    Graduatenurse14 posted a topic in Infusion, Intravenous

    Hi, I'm a new RN on a busy med-surg floor. I had a patient with a double lumen PICC. One was running IVIG and the other was simply getting flushed q shift. I went to flush it but it wouldn't flush,...
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    Help! I look young!

    Graduatenurse14 replied to hella_RN's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I have this problem not so much with patients but with my also new nurse coworkers in their early to mid-20's. I'm 5" 1/2' and I think that it's the height thing more than anything even though I...
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    Kaplan Alternate Format Quiz- 25%!

    Graduatenurse14 posted a topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    I am freaking out!! I just took Kaplan's Alternate Format Quiz and got a 25% (7/27)!! They were hard and not much time to do them! The wording was very different from the Qtrainers and Qbank! I...
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    Question about a recent patient

    Graduatenurse14 replied to Graduatenurse14's topic in Infusion, Intravenous

    No order to flush q hr. Isn't that where nursing judgement and interventions come in? I didn't know I needed an order for this. I was using the standard 10 ml NSS syringes and don't know if it has...